Outlaws & Scorned Women

Stef & Steph
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  • Series

A lapsed theatre kid and a legit lawyer explore the weird, wild, often bloody, never boring criminal history of the Lone Star State.

  1. Episode 2

    The Black Widow of Westlake

    Austin, TX - Millionaire media mogul Steven Beard wakes up one night to find his belly had burst wide open, with no idea how it happened. The truth would involve a love triangle, a shotgun, and a whole helluva lot of money. **Bonus - conversation with a real-live lawyer about just what the hell "capital murder" is. ----more---- Sources: McEvoy, Sophie "'Women Who Kill's Celeste Beard-Johnson Is Still Serving a Life Sentence For The Murder Of Her Husband", Bustle, April 1, 2019 Flynn, Ellie "WOMEN WHO KILL: Who is Celeste Beard-Johnson? Black widow killer serving a life sentence for the murder of her millionaire husband Steven Beard", The Sun UK, Feb 1, 2017 Spencer, Suzy (2004) "The Fortune Hunter", New York, NY: Diversion Books "Snapped"Season 1/Ep 1, 2004 "Women Who Kill", 2017, Channel 4 documentary Celeste Beard: Prison Torment Murderpedia Justia

    The Black Widow of Westlake

  2. Episode 2

    The Santa Claus Bank Robbery

    Cisco, TX – 1927, the Golden Age of Crime. Two days before Christmas, Santa Claus walks into the First National Bank, kicking off a hailstorm of bullets and the biggest manhunt Texas had ever seen. ----more---- Sources: Pilcher, W.F. Santa Claus Bank Robbery, Texas State Historical Association Sault, Spring The Santa Claus Bank Robbery: This Texas Town's Bloodiest Crime, TexasHillCountry.com Fear, Force, and Leather: The Texas Prison System's First Hundred Years, 1848-1948, Texas State Library and Archives Commission "Santa Claus, Why Did You Rob That Bank?", HometownByHandlebar.com Site of the Santa Claus Bank Robbery, AtlasObscura.com Coppedge, Clay The Dead Bank Robbery Bounty, TexasCoOpPower.com The Fugitive

    The Santa Claus Bank Robbery

  3. Episode 3

    The Servant Girl Annihilator

    Austin, TX 1885 - A fiendish killer stalks the night, cleaving the skulls of women with his axe and dragging them from their beds into a darkness filled with knives and terror. As the nation's first serial killer, this guy inspired some poetic prose. Also, we dive into the toe-curling history of the Texas prison system. ----more---- Sources: Hollandsworth, Skip (4/5/2016). Esquire.com, How Police Failed to Find America's First Serial Killer. Henley, Lauren & Dell'Omo, Augusta. 15 Minute History, Episode 102: The "Servant Girl Annihilator". Liberal Arts Development Studio. 1/17/2018 Psencik, Katey (11/7/2014). Kvue.com, The Servant Girl Annihilator: Austin's oldest unsolved murder case. Vatomsky, Sonya (4/25/2017). Mentalfloss.com, How the 'Servant Girl Annihilator' Terrorized 1880s Austin. Bueche, Shelley (10/10/2018) The horrifying history of Austin's infamous Servant Girl Annihilator ServantGirlMurders.com Citydata.com, Austin, TX crime statistics Walker, Donald R. TSHAonline.org, Convict Lease System. Texas State Library And Archives Commission, TSL.Texas.gov. Fear, Force, and Leather - The Texas Prison System's First Hundred Years, 1848-1948 Ariens, Michael. (2011) Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas. Lubbock, TX. Texas Tech University Press.

    The Servant Girl Annihilator

  4. Episode 4

    The Pickaxe Murders

    Houston, TX - Two people are hideously murdered with - of all things! - a pickaxe. The murderers are quickly brought to justice, but when one of them turns out to be a woman and she ends up on Death Row ... well, suddenly the eyes of the whole daggum world were on Texas. ----more---- Sources: Siemaszko, Corky. "The day the pickaxe killer Karla Faye Tucker was executed in 1998". NYDailyNews.com, Feb 3, 2016 King, Larry. "Karla Faye Tucker: Born again on death row", CNN, posted March 26, 2007 "USA: TEXAS: Karla Faye Tucker Execution Looks Set To Go Ahead", AP Archive, July 21, 2015 ClarkProsecutor.org Murderpedia Wikipedia Justia

    The Pickaxe Murders

  5. Episode 5

    The Clock Tower Sniper

    Austin, TX - On August 1, 1966 a lone man with a rifle held an entire city hostage for 96 minutes. We tell the story of our nation's first mass shooting, ponder nature vs nurture, and hash out the legal what-if's. Then we, I dunno, hug some puppies or something, cuz lawd this one is dark. ----more---- Sources: Lavergne, Gary M. "A Sniper In The Tower: the Charles Whitman Murders"Denton, TX 1997 Colloff, Pamela. "96 Minutes", Texas Monthly, August 2006 Rosenwald, Michael. "'He was looking straight at me': The brave officer who helped stop Charles Whitman", Washington Post, August 1, 2016 KTBC FOX 7 Austin. "UT Tower Shooting Video | Austin, TX 1966" Youtube. August 1, 2016

    The Clock Tower Sniper

  6. Episode 9

    Texas Lynch Mobs (part 1) - The San Saba Mob

    The first in a two-part deep dive into the long, monstrous history of lynching in Texas. Because no exploration of the crime in this state would be complete, or honest, without taking a long, hard look at this particular atrocity. So hug a puppy, y'all, and let's get into it. ----more---- Sources: Frontier Times Magazine, June 1950 Texas State Historical Association Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas (American Liberty and Justice), by Michael Ariens See No Evil Speak No Evil: a history of mob violence in the Texas heartland, 1869-1904, by Ross McSwain "Lynching In Texas", by David L. Chapman, B.A.

    Texas Lynch Mobs (part 1) - The San Saba Mob

  7. Episode 10

    Texas Lynch Mobs (part 2) - The Sherman Race Riot

    The second (and last) part of our deep-dive into the brutal history of lynch mobs in Texas. Turns out, racism was the key factor. Who knew? (everyone. everyone knew) This story gets real ugly before it gets better, but it does get better. So hit play, and let's find that slim silver lining on the big racist cloud. ----more---- Sources: News 12 Forum: Black History Month (Part 2 - The Sherman Riot of 1930) "Trails of Our Past - the riot of 1930", by Dusty Williams, Van Alstyne Leader Texas State Library and Archives Commission "The Sherman Riot of 1930: major outbreak of racial violence in the United States", by Jae Jones, BlackThen.com "Former Sherman Native Says Events of 1930 Shaped City's History" Durham, William J. - TSHAonline.org Slocum Massacre - TSHAonline.org Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching - TSHAonline.org "How the NAACP Fought Lynching - by using the racists' own pictures against them", by Andrew Belonsky, TheGuardian.com

    Texas Lynch Mobs (part 2) - The Sherman Race Riot

  8. Episode 11

    The Sudden Passion Defense

    San Antonio, TX - Just in time for Valentine's Day! Scorned women take center stage as a love triangle turns deadly. ----more---- ERRATA:  In this episode discussing Frances Hall case, I (Steph) erroneously stated the sudden passion defense could result in reducing Hall's sentence to a range of 2-10 years by prevailing on the defense before the jury.  I (Steph) should have stated the jury's acceptance of the defense could reduce the sentencing range to two to 20 years in prison.  I misspoke and didn't catch it at the time.  Clearly talking while tired.   Sources: Neaves, Alicia, KENS5.com Zavala, Elizabeth, mysanantonio.com Danner, Patrick, houstonchronicle.com Zavala, Elizabeth, mysanantonio.com Van Sant, Peter. "Driven To Extremes", cbsnews.com Median, Maria, ksat.com Dateline: Collision Texas Penal Code, Chapter 19 Justia.com, for all our appellate document needs

    The Sudden Passion Defense
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A lapsed theatre kid and a legit lawyer explore the weird, wild, often bloody, never boring criminal history of the Lone Star State.

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  • Creator
    Stef & Steph
  • Years Active
    2019
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
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